Thank you for your input on this issue. I had ignored the distinctions between the svcprop -c and -C options, but after that was pointed out it became clear what fields were set with the various enable/disable and -t options being applied on a service.
It turns out that you need both the general/enabled and general_ovr/enabled set appropriately for the disabled service to be enabled following reboot. I do agree that it would be nice to have something more explict to mark an application for enable following reboot. As a SMF newbie, it was confusing that the 'disable -t' option really depended upon the current state of the service as to what its effect was. I understand what's going on now; just was not obvious when I began looking into this. Thanks again. This message posted from opensolaris.org
